A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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The Future of Mining on the Moon
Last year at the NIAC Symposium, I was there as you made a presentation about mining not asteroids, but the surface of the moon. And it was utterly fascinating how you're going to pull that off. Can you give us a thumbnail sort of an elevator speech description of what you have in mind for the moon? Sure, we have two significant innovations that we're working on for lunar mining. The first is something we call radiant gas dynamic mining which uses microwaves, RF, and infrared.
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